Protecting my very much wanted baby came first.
I'm not talking about the bespectacled middle-aged Marxist Leninists who always showed up whenever the NDP would have a rally, so the Toronto Sun could go on about the horrors of Communism to its idiot readers, but young men I'd never seen before at our rallies. They were there to incite violence.
That was my last protest for quite a while.
Back in 2007 there was a protest in the small resort town of Montebello, Quebec, against the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America pact, and a meeting between then Prime Minister Stephen Harper, American President George W. Bush, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. Three agent provocateurs, undercover cops disguised as protestors, incited violence before being handcuffed by other cops providing security against the protestors.
We know this happened. We also know legislators came up with a law against wearing a mask at a protest, except it doesn't ever seem to apply to young men in masks inciting violence at protests.
The Freedom Convoy, which was a three week white power rally supported by many within law enforcement, certainly police unions were all in with it, was chock-a-block with violence against us, civilians, including flooding 911 with prank calls, harassing hospital workers, even storming a palliative care hospital.
Remember during the pandemic when the so-called anti-vax movement (aka Russian op) attacked healthcare workers and patients outside hospitals? Who were those "protestors" really? Were any of them ever arrested? They were causing disturbances and inciting violence outside hospitals during a pandemic, ffs. We'd never witnessed anything like it and apparently neither had police, they were so helpless to do anything about it, requiring the government to come up with Bill C-3.
It absolutely is anti-semitic to target Mount Sinai hospital in Toronto in a protest against Israel. Blatantly so. And anti-semitism is a hate crime, against the law. So we should certainly expect charges against the perpetrators.
At the very least climbing on an awning to wave a flag does come up against Bill C-3. Hospitals are off limits for protests following the Freedom Convoy's harassment and incitement of violence against staff and patients. But also, since anti-semitic and anti-Muslim attacks (the latter have been deadly) are on the rise, zero tolerance for protestors conflating Jews with the actions of Israel and Muslims with Islamic terrorism is wise.
Police have been monitoring protests here against Israel's ongoing slaughter of Palestinian children and their parents since it began, which it did immediately after the Hamas terrorist attack of October 7, when Israeli women and peace activists were raped, mutilated, and murdered, all of it filmed for the world to witness, journalists invited for special screenings of details too gruesome for the public, Netanyahu vowing revenge even while many Israelis demonstrated against him, wanting him and his corrupt and racist Likud government gone.
There are many Jews here protesting Israel's ongoing slaughter of Palestinian children and their parents, just as there are many Israeli Jews protesting it. Some of them are even in jail for standing up against their government and Netanyahu, who is so famously corrupt, the man Obama was overheard calling a "liar".
It's terrible what's happening in the world, what's happening to us. I have friends, family, I don't want to talk to anymore. Some of them think we shouldn't help Ukraine defend itself from slaughter by Russia, others think we should help Israel while it slaughters Palestinians. I don't respect either opinion. I can't. I'd have to be a completely different person to do it.
The easiest course to take is avoidance. I don't know how to find common ground with them anymore.
And I'm not over the moon about Justin Trudeau, but I'm not interested in slagging him either. I think he's doing a good job in a very difficult time and in spite of a bunch of *hole premiers who don't give a shit about any of us and a demonstrably treasonous Official Opposition. I had a temp assignment in government during the pandemic. People are burnt out everywhere. It's no one's fault. We've been through a pandemic.
And we've been under attack, not just by a deadly virus, by foreign ops aided and abetted by treason weasels.
And Biden certainly has aged and does appear frail and yes I wish both Trudeau and he would say cease all funding and arms to Israel. Risk the fallout. Maybe the treason weasels won't win. Or maybe they will and democracy will survive them.
Bonus, let Putin show both his hands, funding Hamas AND Netanyahu. And if he defeats Ukraine, well, there's always guerrilla warfare, I guess.
But as I keep pointing out, there was only one name on the Freedom Convoy hate signs - Trudeau's - and it may as well've been mine. So that's who I'm rallying around for as long as he wants to be Prime Minister. And I'll rally around whoever comes after him because New Democrats don't want to win, or they would have done by now, and Conservatives are my enemy. Pierre Poilievre declared himself my enemy during the Freedom Convoy attack on me.
And why is it even a contest between Biden and Trump? That's just nuts. Not only is Biden fine, he has the best running mate in American history. So he has to step down post election and Americans get President Harris. Where is the downside?
Anyway, the other night I just felt so fatigued by it all, seeing the destruction in Gaza - shown nightly on The National, Chris Brown on the ground there - is soul destroying, hence why I don't respect you for supporting Israel and that liar Netanyahu. It's not a war, it's a war crime, and there are Israelis sitting in jail for pointing that out, just as there are many Jews here in Canada who were at the protest in Toronto where some young man climbed the awning outside Mount Sinai hospital and waved the Palestinian flag.
The Freedom Convoy did much worse, and included avowed anti-semites like Diagolon Accelerationists, but at least we have Bill C-3 now to protect hospital workers and patients from harassment.
And targeting Mount Sinai hospital in a protest against Israel is anti-semitic. Fortunately, we have laws against that, too.
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